Thomaston Baptist Church26-Nov-23 Matthew 25:31-46 Have you ever noticed that it is easier to be grumpy about something than it is to be grateful about it? I have, and I’ve noticed it in me. I will admit that I have come to the place in my life where I am addicted to electricity. I love the stuff. […]
29-Oct-23 Matthew 22:15-22 Like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with taxes. This is mostly because I do not like to pay them, but I do like to ride down a nice smooth road. And because I am married to someone who comprehends taxes, I do not have to think about them much. Meg […]
15-Oct-23 Matthew 22:1-14 This is not a pretty parable. In fact, I don’t know that any of the parables of Jesus are very pretty. Most of them are absolutely terrifying, and they serve as powerful warnings to all who are brave enough to read them. Our parable this morning starts out innocently enough; a grand […]
06-Aug-23 Luke 9:23-36 Prayer is probably the most important discipline that any of us can cultivate. And Jesus is our prime tutor in this matter. When Jesus needed to pray, when Jesus needed to be alone with God, everything else in his life came to a crashing halt. And so Jesus has gone up into […]
28-May-23 Matthew 10:40-42 Pentecost Sunday “That too, must always be our prayer. For there are things that lurk within us that ought not to be there.” Stunning words, huh? Don’t they just make you want to run into your closet, beat your breast, and repent? Not likely. Those words are sort of meaningless. There’s no […]
09-Apr-23 Mark 16:1-8 Easter Day The Immediate problem facing the women is the stone that has been rolled against the entrance to the tomb. The women who are coming to the tomb on this first Easter morning are well aware of it’s presence. They watched, earlier, when Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus and sealed the […]
19-Mar-23 John 9:1-41 Fourth Sunday in Lent Sin is a very popular topic for people to talk about. As long, of course, as it is not our sin that they are talking about. Even though it is OK for us to talk about the sins of others, we do not want anyone to ever talk […]
05-Mar-23 Matthew 26:36-56 Second Sunday in Lent One of the great Baptist heresies, and there are many, is that we will not allow Jesus to be human. We give only lip service to his humanity. At Christmastime, we speak of the incarnation, and we talk about God in the flesh, but really, we don’t want […]
19-Feb-23 Matthew 17:1-9 I wonder, sometimes, if we haven’t lost our sense of awe when we gather for worship on Sunday mornings. Worship is pretty serious business. We gather here, Sunday after Sunday, to intentionally put ourselves into the presence of the Living God. And when we do that, there ought to be a sense […]
12-Feb-23 Matthew 25:45-26:3 In the story of Joseph in the Old Testament, there is a line that has always fascinated me. Joseph has been sold in to slavery by his jealous brothers. They really intended to kill him. It was that important for them to get rid of him, and get him out of their […]
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